The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1887-12-09
OREGON NEWS.


clock.
Grants pass is infested with clothes
line thieves.
There are three daily papers pub
lished IN Astoria.
A new Methodist church is being
erected at Newport.
A new church is just about to be
finished at Long Greek.
Scab has broken out In several bands
OF sheep in the vicinity OF Condor.
The mail route between Knight and
Macley has been extended TO Salem.
There are about 100000 bushels Of
wheat stored in Pendleton- awaiting
shipment.
w. T. Hill, OF Coos county. was
very badly gored by an OK several OF
his ribs beirg broken.
The President las appointed John
Myers to be United States Marshal for
the District of Oregon.
There are ninety-nine corporations.
firms and persons in Union county
who pay taxes On valuation OF $4,000
and upwards.
The past seasons catch of salmon in
the Coguille river was valued at over
$4,000; and about $40 600 of that sum
was paid in wages.
VIM Hardin. the 16-year-old son of
Charles II srdin, had his leg broken
while hauling wood from the noun
tains TO La Grande
The Whitman mill at Cornucopia
Is said TO be running with great sue
cess, and the output of bullion will lie
large from this time ON:
Near Mud creek, Umatilla county.
W. A. Smiley's little boy, about three
rears old, Was fatally burned By falling
into kettle of boiling water.
Frederick Bergwall, timekeeper for
Hoffman x Bates, was instantly killed
on the pivot pier of the railroad bridge
at Portland, by box OF cement falling
upon him.
H. L. Robertson, living near Grants
Pass, the past season raised q blood
beet measuring three feet and ten in
ches, and sugar beet weighing thirty
five pounds.
john Seheidiger, an old resident of
Southern Oregon, and who has been IN
jackson county hospital for some time
past has been declared insane and
taken to Salem.
The building of new $4,000 hotel
on the site of the old PendIeton hotel
is now assured. Over $4,000 of the
stock was subscribed in a few hours.
Work will begin soon.
A correspondent writing from OF
ala, says that mex. year the cultivation
OF sorghum viii receive considerable
attention In that section, as the past
season has demonstrated that it pays
we'll.
DR.. Sbelton's new palatial residence
at Eugene was totally destroyed by
fire. The house was inst about COM
pleted at cost of 5000. The cause
OF the FIRE is unknown, probably in
cendiary.
Negotiations have been completed
for the erection at Milton OF q large
trst-class Touring mill and. an agri-
cultural machine factory. The mill
site has been purchased and the ditch
is being laid out.
Government employees have finished
weighing the mail that passes over the
Oregon Short Line, and find that it is
just three times heavier than it was
at the same time last year. This is a
striking and Indispensable evidence OF
the increased growth of the country.
The Kerby Irrigating and Milling
Company has completed a 1SOLfoot
dam ON east branch of the Illinois river
and have large staff OF men at work
digging the ditch to Kerby. It is ex
pected that water will be flowing
through Kerby in three months time
Messrs Tomlinson & Brooks, sheep
raisers of Willow creek, Malheur coun
ty, report aloss of 400 tons OF hay BY
fire, which they had just purchased
for the use of their sheep during the
coming winter. Incendiaries done the
work, but no clue to the perpetrators OF
the outrage has been discovered.
Rogue River valleys corn crop was
a fair one this year, although the sea
SON was not considered as favorable as
the average. The farmers are learning
that thorough cultivation often takes
the place of favorable weather. Few
sales OF corn are made, but the price
IL quoted at 90 cents per busnel.
Joseph Drougard had the high boat
at the o. S. p. Cos cannery, Empire,
this season, having caught 1857 sal
mon. The company presented him
with a silver watch, six ounce case.
nickel works. On the back is engraved
Columbia river fishing boat, with
Fort Stevens, at the mouth of the
Columbia river, as background.
The body OF Thomas De Loughey
an inmate of the asylum. at Salem
was found hanging from the window
netting by bed sheet Do Laughey
had during the night fastened the two
ends of the sheet to the netting. made
a moose by a single twist, stuck his
neck through and jumpe from the
window sill. He strang'ed TO death
Deceased was a violent subject, and
was committed from Multuomah coun-
ty recently.
Active preparations are being mace
for starting up work at the Oswego
iron works Over $4,000 will be
expended before operations begin
Contracts have been let for 10000
cords of wood TO be chopped this win
ter for charcoal An immense amount
of machinery is now en-route from the
East, and before many weeks this
great industry will be in vigorous op
Grafton, giving employment to about
500 men.
Practical and successful breeders
claim that constant supply of salt for
swine is q safe preventive of diseases.
one that can be counted on with de-